non-static variable cannot be referenced from a static context

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From: Ben Sudbury
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:00

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Hi All,

    I'm just building my first "real" Java application and continually get
the error:

"non-static variable cannot be referenced from a static context"

when compiling my code.

Can someone explain what this means and how to avoid it?

Thanks,

Ben.

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